s Federation (MCF) membership.Simple enough? Well perhaps, but there have been some parallel developments.
The first is that a Wilayah Persekutuan Chess Association was recently registered with the Registrar of Societies and with indecent haste (despite no activities or membership) accepted as a member by MCF with the expectation that KLCA would be forced to become it's affiliate!
And that in essence guided the answer of the MCF Honorary Secretary.
Well there is a problem is the KLCA is the legitimate organisation registered with and duly recognised by the Sports Commission whereas MCF and all its affiliates are not!
There is also a second related problem in that the Malaysian Malays Chess Association (PCMM) has been found to have been illegal for many years and yet it seems that several PCMM representatives at MCF Annual General Meetings have been happily running for and been elected to hold office in MCF while being fully aware of this situation.
(I have always wondered if the MCF Constitution actually allows a racially based grouping to be a member - and certainly if there ever was, there is clearly no need today for a PCMM).
But to get MCF membership it seems that KLCA would have agree to a merger and to allow officials from the Wilayah Persekutuan Chess Association into key positions... which explains why there needed to be a Wilayah Persekutuan Chess Association even if the national membership of PCMM would have to be sacrificed!
Perhaps in the context of a bigger picture we should also appreciate that in MCF the Honorary Life President is now also the President (although he intends to step down the minute a new President can be found - but apparently not Edmund Santhara). And dare I say that there are at least three years of accounts that raise serious questions at a glance and would certainly have difficulty standing up to scrutiny.
I also wonder if officials who allowed their association to be declared illegal can still run for office?
Of course we have to give some benefit of the doubt and part of the problem might be simply that standard paperwork to help document such as letters, even issuance of receipts is not the strong point of the Honorary Secretary and certainly procedures are very poor indeed when entry fees are encouraged to be in cash or banked into a personal account (apparently for his convenience).
